Alan Jackson - Page 8

The countdown to the 2012 CMT Music Awards is on! This Wednesday night (June 6), country music fanatics will get to see country's top performers take the stage at the awards show. Plus, fans will also catch a glimpse of their favorite artists presenting awards to this year's winners.

With his new studio album 'Thirty Miles West,' Alan Jackson returns to the forefront of country music. His label home may have changed since the release of his last project more than two years ago, but Jackson's reputation for constructing quality country albums remains intact 15 albums into his iconic recording career.

For the most part, mustaches have gone the way of the mullet, in that very few country men are willing to support a look that was as reliable as the cowboy hat in the 1980s and '90s. Alan Jackson held on to his until just recently, so we've included him in today's readers poll. Which country artist's mustache is your favorite?

The town of Mineral, Va. -- which has a population of fewer than 500 people -- has inherited a not-so-small fortune, thanks to the charitable efforts of country superstar Alan Jackson. The earthquake-ravaged eastern Virginia town was the lucky recipient of a free concert from the country titan after winning a radio-sponsored contest for garnering the most online votes. The concert raised a whopping $152,000 to help rebuild the tiny community.

With the release of Alan Jackson's long-awaited 'Thirty Miles West' just weeks way, the country superstar has divulged the official track listing for the 13-track album. The project, Jackson's first under his own label Alan Country Records, in partnership with EMI Nashville, may be his 17th studio attempt, but the Georgia native admits he is still able to create a relevant album title that references his own person life.

In 1986, an almost clean-cut Alan Jackson gripped a gold microphone and sang a cover of George Jones' 'He Stopped Lovin' Her Today' for the live audience and viewers of TNN's 'You Can Be a Star.' Keith Stegall -- the man who would go on to produce and write many of Jackson's songs -- was on stage as a judge for the competitive singing show. According to the YouTube video below, it's the first time he heard the future star.

Alan Jackson has had great success as a tried and true country artist. Newer acts, like Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert, have scored their success by straying from the old-fashioned country sound. But Jackson says he won't go that route. The 53-year-old country legend plans to hold steady with his down South sound.

Alan Jackson has been the owner of some impressive real estate in his day. From his $28 million Williamson County estate -- which he and his wife sold earlier this year to move to a gated community -- to his $15 million, $19,000 Juniper Island, Florida estate -- which is still on the market -- Jackson and his wife seem to be simplifying as their daughters get older. And now, adding to the list of properties they have decided to sell this year, the Jacksons are putting their equally mind-boggling lakeside retreat on the market for $4,995,000.

Over a dozen of country music's top performers participated in recording 'The Choice,' a song written by Billy Gilman to bring awareness to children in need of shoes across the world. Every download of the song will provide a pair of shoes to a child in need.

Miranda Lambert was in the news twice today, but we chose the cute story about the puppy to lead the Daily Roundup with today. The other story -- about fans getting robbed at gunpoint -- is also available within this list of the day's top headlines, along with an interview with Alan Jackson in which he talks about the boys who come to take his daughters out on dates. He doesn't quite go all 'Cleanin' This Gun' on them, but it's close.

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